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Bash Back! Trashes Mormon Church in Prop 8 Solidarity
An Affinity group of BB! Olympia has trashed the local Mormon Church in Solidarity with queers in California. This is a repost from Seattle Indymedia
Last night, under the veil of fog, we visited the Church of Latter Day Saints. We left their locks glued with anarchist messages scrawled in spray paint over their boring veneer.
We did this to show our solidarity with all who are resisting heterosexism everywhere, hopefully to spur them into action; and also because we are angry at the amount of money and propaganda that the Mormon church pumped into the homophobic Proposition 8 campaign. From their disgusting commercials to their despicable sermons to those gross lawn signs, we are sick of this parade of bigotry. The Church has to pay.
We as anarchists are opposed to marriage but we see that this blatantly anti-gay act as a threat to all us gay, lesbian, transgendered and queer folk. The Proposition 8 campaign was used as a medium to instill homophobic fear into the population of California so as to squash queer culture, it is dangerous to let these actions go unchecked and not confronted.
Liberating our sexual fantasies and desires is dangerous to this rigid system, because free people enjoying themselves in a plethora of ways sexually will eventually want to enjoy themselves in other areas of life too, capitalism doesn’t want sexually liberated people because they ask too many questions and may not show up to work on time (or at all).
The Mormon church (just like most churches) is a cesspool of filth. It is a breeding ground for oppression of all sorts and needs to be confronted, attacked, subverted and destroyed. The church reinforces sexism, transphobia, homophobia, racism, capitalism, and leaves it’s members emotionally wounded and unable to engage in critical thinking. The Mormon church teaches us to hate our bodies, not to trust ourselves or our desires. This ends up deforming us as healthy sexual and communal beings. This is unacceptable.
This is a few reasons why an affinity group of the Olympia, Washington Chapter of Bash Back! decided to attack their church with glue and paint. Let this be a warning to the Mormon church, dissolve completely or be destroyed. The choice is yours..
~BASH BACK! OLYMPIA
We did this to show our solidarity with all who are resisting heterosexism everywhere, hopefully to spur them into action; and also because we are angry at the amount of money and propaganda that the Mormon church pumped into the homophobic Proposition 8 campaign. From their disgusting commercials to their despicable sermons to those gross lawn signs, we are sick of this parade of bigotry. The Church has to pay.
We as anarchists are opposed to marriage but we see that this blatantly anti-gay act as a threat to all us gay, lesbian, transgendered and queer folk. The Proposition 8 campaign was used as a medium to instill homophobic fear into the population of California so as to squash queer culture, it is dangerous to let these actions go unchecked and not confronted.
Liberating our sexual fantasies and desires is dangerous to this rigid system, because free people enjoying themselves in a plethora of ways sexually will eventually want to enjoy themselves in other areas of life too, capitalism doesn’t want sexually liberated people because they ask too many questions and may not show up to work on time (or at all).
The Mormon church (just like most churches) is a cesspool of filth. It is a breeding ground for oppression of all sorts and needs to be confronted, attacked, subverted and destroyed. The church reinforces sexism, transphobia, homophobia, racism, capitalism, and leaves it’s members emotionally wounded and unable to engage in critical thinking. The Mormon church teaches us to hate our bodies, not to trust ourselves or our desires. This ends up deforming us as healthy sexual and communal beings. This is unacceptable.
This is a few reasons why an affinity group of the Olympia, Washington Chapter of Bash Back! decided to attack their church with glue and paint. Let this be a warning to the Mormon church, dissolve completely or be destroyed. The choice is yours..
~BASH BACK! OLYMPIA
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this is the kind of crap that reeks of Homeland Security sabotage to make the rest of the movement look stupid, mean, and too much like the bigotry we are fighting against. Read some Emma Goldman.
"Capitalism doesn’t want sexually liberated people because they ask too many questions..."
I don't know where they get this weird adolescent notion from since sex has been an intrinsic part of corporate advertising for decades. Diet Coke anyone? Even Levi 501s?
In 2021, one can't move for corporations "gaywashing" their advertising in rainbow flags and saying how pro-LGBT+ they are. Even the NFL and FIFA are jumping on the bandwaggon. If there's money to be made, capitalism gets right in there.
Capitalism benefits from a promiscuous society not stable marriages etc, since couples tend to spend most of their money on looking good early on, so spend less on make up, expensive clothing, cologne etc in the long term. Someone who is sexually promiscuous will find themselves continually trying to attract new partners by using all of these products, dating apps etc. It is also a godsend to the anti-aging industry, since sexual attractiveness and prowess starts dropping off at 25 if you're unlucky, or 40 if you're lucky. It's easy to "pull" when you're twenty, but try doing it at fifty or sixty. Out comes the Viagra and hair dye.
If anything, capitalism benefits from people trying to hook up with new partners. More so than married people.
I don't know where they get this weird adolescent notion from since sex has been an intrinsic part of corporate advertising for decades. Diet Coke anyone? Even Levi 501s?
In 2021, one can't move for corporations "gaywashing" their advertising in rainbow flags and saying how pro-LGBT+ they are. Even the NFL and FIFA are jumping on the bandwaggon. If there's money to be made, capitalism gets right in there.
Capitalism benefits from a promiscuous society not stable marriages etc, since couples tend to spend most of their money on looking good early on, so spend less on make up, expensive clothing, cologne etc in the long term. Someone who is sexually promiscuous will find themselves continually trying to attract new partners by using all of these products, dating apps etc. It is also a godsend to the anti-aging industry, since sexual attractiveness and prowess starts dropping off at 25 if you're unlucky, or 40 if you're lucky. It's easy to "pull" when you're twenty, but try doing it at fifty or sixty. Out comes the Viagra and hair dye.
If anything, capitalism benefits from people trying to hook up with new partners. More so than married people.
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